Tourism in Africa Christie, Iain; Fernandes, Eneida; Messerli, Hannah ...
2014.
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This report is the first to examine tourism in Africa comprehensively and regionally and the first to recommend practical, evidence-based measures enabling the sectors economic and development power. ...This gives new impetus to the continents development progress by leveraging tourism in pursuit of lasting poverty alleviation and the creation of significantly more jobs and opportunities for all Africans.
The Mediterranean coastal regions of Southern Europe have long been world leaders in mass tourism. This book examines some key questions for tourism development in these areas, with implications for ...similar regions across the world. The standardised forms of mass tourism are diversifying – with more specialised forms, notably those based on nature, culture and heritage, and those catering for special interests. There is a growing spectrum of modes of tourism, with an emphasis on variety, flexibility and permeability. Both mass tourism and the more diversified forms substantially impact on sustainable development. Policies promoting sustainable development are often of two main types: developing smaller-scale, alternative tourism products that are intended to be less damaging to the environment and society, and secondly, attempts to make mass tourism coastal resorts more sustainable. But there has been little critical assessment of these policies, either evaluating their basic assumptions or their successes and failures in practice. This edited book critically examines these issues for varied coastal regions in Southern Europe, including case studies from Spain, Croatia, Turkey, and north and south Cyprus.
The darker side of travel Sharpley, Richard; Stone, Philip R
2009., 2009, 2009-08-25, Letnik:
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This book is a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. Drawing on existing literature, numerous examples and introducing new conceptual perspectives, it develops a theoretically ...informed foundation for examining the demand for and supply of dark tourism experiences.
Tourists are travelling the world in greater numbers than ever before, seeking immersive cultural experiences. This massive rise of tourism has raised issues of social and cultural sustainability in ...the world’s global cities. At the same time, smaller cities and rural communities struggling with increasing urbanization and the loss of traditional industries could benefit from increased tourism. Smaller cities and communities are uniquely well-suited to hosting tourists seeking authentic connection with local cultures. Locally led, collaborative efforts to build creative tourism industries have the possibility to reinvigorate struggling communities. Creative tourism offers the opportunity to build socially and culturally sustainable channels for growth that benefit locals and visitors alike. Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities examines the processes, policies, and methodologies of creative tourism, paying special attention to the ways creative and place-based tourism can aid sustainable cultural development. With topics ranging from placemaking through food to the cultural impacts of cruise travel, and from catalyzing creative tourism to creating resiliency, this collection offers a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives from a variety of experts. Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities offers a bold vision for the future of tourism worldwide.
Tourism, Knowledge and Learning Eva Maria Jernsand, Maria Persson, Erik Lundberg / Eva Maria Jernsand, Maria Persson, Erik Lundberg
09/2022
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This book contributes to the understanding of how tourism can be designed to provide conditions for learning. This involves learning for tourists, the tourist industry, public authorities and local ...communities. We explore how tourism, knowledge and learning can be used as means towards sustainable development through current, new or changed structures, concepts, activities and communication efforts. The book should be seen as both an inspiration for tourism actors (e.g. tourism attractions, policy makers and other industry actors), and a scholarly contribution to further research. A holistic approach distinguishes this book from most existing literature that focuses on separate units of tourism, for instance, personal or community well-being, nature-based tourism, cultural heritage tourism or tourism that is a result of researchers’ travels (so-called scientific tourism). The various contributors to the book provide a range of perspectives and experiences, from social sciences with a focus on marketing, innovation management, human geography and environmental law, to arts and humanities with a focus on heritage studies, archaeology and photography, and, finally, to natural sciences with a focus on marine sciences.
Tourist behaviour Pearce, Philip L
2005., 2005, 2005-09-27, Letnik:
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Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume presents a ...thorough tour of the social psychological processes which underpin contemporary travel. The fascinating phenomenon of tourist behaviour deals with topics such as motivation, destination choice, travellers' on site experiences, satisfaction and learning. This book uses an array of developing and recently constructed conceptual frameworks to both synthesise what is established, and to create new insights and directions for further analysis and, ultimately, management action.
Tourism and trails Timothy, Dallen J; Boyd, Stephen W
2014., 2014, 2014-12-05, Letnik:
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of trails and routes from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume addresses conceptual and management issues systematically, ...examining supply, demand, development and impacts associated with trails and routes.
Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, ...sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider:
Performing Paradise
Performances of Global Heritage
Remaking Playful Places
New Playful Places.
Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, this fascinating book illuminates the tourist performance phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of 'Cool Reykjavik' to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism.
Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change.
1. Places to Play, Places in Play Part 1: Performing Paradise 2. Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Carribean Paradise 3. Islands in the Sun: Cyprus 4. Eco-Tourists on the Beach 5. Shifting the Beach: Surf, Sand and Bodies Part 2: Performances of Global Heritage 6. Little England's Global Conference Centre 7. Bodies, Spirits and Incas: Performing 8. On the Track of the Vikings 9. Art Exhibitions Travel the World 10. Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: Tourist Flows and Globalisation Part 3: Remaking Playful Places 11. The Paradox of a Tourist Centre: Hong Kong as a Site of Play and a Place of Fear 12. Barcelona's Games: The Olympics, Urban Design and Global Tourism 13. Tourists in the Concrete Desert 14. Favela Tours: Indistinct and Mapless Representations of the Real in Rio de Janeiro Part 4: New Playful Places 15. Playing On-line and Between the Lines: Round-the-World Websites as Virtual Places to Play 16. 'Let's Build a Palm Island!': Playfulness in Complex times 17. Atomica World: The Place of Nuclear Tourism 18. Death in Venice